WEBVTT ALL CRIME SCENES ARE GRISLY, BUT-- >> ALL CRIME SCENES ARE GRISLY,BUT THESE VICTIMS WERE INNOCENTCHILDREN.THIS WAS A GRUESOME, ADISTURBING, AND MOST OF ALL, AHEARTBREAKING CRIME.REPORTER: A MOTHER NOW BEHINDBARS FOR AN UNSPEAKABLE CRIME.HER TWO YOUNG SONS, AGES FIVEAND EIGHT, FOUND MURDERED INSIDETHEIR BROCKTON HOME.>> WE BELIEVE THE DEATHS OFTHESE TWO YOUNG CHILDRENOCCURRED SOMETIME IN THE LAST 48HOURS.WE BELIEVE THE VICTIMS WERESTABBED TO DEATH.REPORTER: THE BOYS STABBEDMULTIPLE TIMES.AUTHORITIES FOUND THEM DEADUPSTAIRS ON THE THIRD FLOORAFTER A NEIGHBOR CALLED 911AROUND NOOLATARSHA SANDERS WAS INITIALLYTAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL,POLICE THINK SHE ACTED ALONE.>> MS. SANDERS MADE STATEMENTSTHAT CAN BE CONSTRUED ASADMISSIONS TO THIS CRIME TOINVESTIGATORS.REPORTER: POLICE HAVE BEEN INAND OUT OF THIS HOME SEARCHINGFOR A REASON.>> WHEN SOMETHING AS TRAGIC ASTHIS OCCURS, WE ARE LEFTWONDERING, HOW WHY COULD THISHAPPENREPORTER: AND THOSE AREQUESTIONS MAY BE ANSWERED AT HER

Mother accused of stabbing children to death inside apartment

Authorities describe children's death as gruesome

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Updated: 10:19 PM EST Feb 5, 2018

BROCKTON, Mass. —

A mother is accused of murder after her two young children were found stabbed to death in Brockton on Monday, according to city officials.

Plymouth Country District Attorney Timothy Cruz said the victims, who were found dead inside the third-floor apartment at 247 Prospect St., were 5 and 8 years old. Cruz said the children were brothers.

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"All crime scenes are grisly, but these victims were innocent children," Cruz said. "This was a gruesome, a disturbing, and most of all a heartbreaking crime."

Cruz said during a press conference Monday afternoon that the 43-year-old mother, Latarsha Sanders, is in police custody and is facing two counts of murder. Sanders is expected to be arraigned Tuesday at Brockton District Court.

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"The motive is undeveloped at this time and the investigation has yet to fully unfold," Cruz said. "When something as tragic as this occurs, we're all left wondering how, why could this happen."

Mayor Bill Carpenter's office sent out a robocall to members of the Brockton City Council on Monday afternoon confirming the stabbing deaths of two children in the city.

Traffic was closed off on both sides of the aging three-family home, which has faded gray paint, with a rug draped over the third floor balcony. Vehicles were being directed down Weston Street.

Neighbors now wondering what may have led to two little boys allegedly dying at the hands of their mother.

"I don't understand how anyone would ever do that to children," one neighbor said. "Two kids, they can't fight back. Why would stab two kids?" another neighbor said.

As investigators combed through the scene, a stuffed animal was left by a pole in memory of the two brothers.

An animal control officer was later seen removing a single cat from the third floor apartment.